Yoshiteru Ashikaga

Yoshiteru Ashikaga (1534-1555) was the son and heir of Yoshiharu Ashikaga, the Shogun of Japan's Ashikaga Shogunate and daimyo of the Ashikaga clan.

Biography
Yoshiteru Ashikaga was the son of Shogun Yoshiharu Ashikaga, who was the daimyo of the Ashikaga clan and ruler of Japan through the renowned Ashikaga Shogunate. Low-ranking and with low loyalty, Yoshiteru belonged to a selfish aristocratic family that cared only for their own absolute rule over Japan and the power that they held over the various warring daimyo that scrapped and fought over provinces in the Sengoku Period. He was one of the commanders of the garrison in Kyoto, along with his father and his brother, Yoshiaki Ashikaga.

Death
Yoshiteru was an important general in the Ashikaga Shogunate, so Nobunaga Oda, a daimyo from Owari who was leading the Oda clan to prominence, sent his ninja Yorifuji to assassinate him in Kyoto. After infiltrating the outer walls and killing a few guards, Yorifuji found a silhouette of a sitting samurai in full armor through a screen door and heard talking. At that time, Yoshiteru was holding a war council with his retainers, planning a campaign against the Hattori. Yorifuji slid his katana through the silhouette's helmet through the screen, stabbing Yoshiteru in the back of the head and killing him.